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<blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 4156420" data-attributes="member: 8221"><p>[sblock=ooc]</p><p>ooc </p><p>Wilphe, are we taking water or atmosphere for refuelling? I was assuming water. But ships scoop gas from gas giants, so would we be doing the same thing here? Could we? Any advantages either way?</p><p></p><p>Yeah we are talking water from the planet itself, Pharmacorp want you to use the gasgiant.</p><p></p><p>pros and cons of either:</p><p></p><p>- Water:</p><p>+ It is normally availible on inhabitated planets, terrestrial ones anyway</p><p>+ It is really hard to die getting water, as even if there isn't a hose all you have to do is stop over any body of water, sink into it and open the fuelling cocks. Bad weather can make this a bit tricky but usually nothing more than that</p><p>+ You can use ice in extremis but that requires a lot of shovelling and then you have to melt it.</p><p>+ It doesn't require a seperate journey away from the main world</p><p></p><p>- Most inhabitated planets don't like seeing their hydrosphere dissappear and will flat out forbid such refuelling or charge for it. Especially is water is short</p><p>- Water needs to be cracked into hydrogen and oxygen to be useable as jump fuel. This isn't normally a problem as most ships have power to spare, but it does take time. Normally however that time is spent on planet or travelling to the jump point</p><p></p><p>Gas Giant skimming</p><p>+ You will getting Hydrogen, not water, so it just needs to be purified, not cracked</p><p>+ No one really cares is their gas giant is a bit smaller</p><p></p><p>- Skimming a gas giant is never routine, these things have weather systems the size of planets, crushing gravity and massive magnetic fields. Not a place to make a mistake.</p><p>- It's a great place to get ambushed. Pirates, SBDs and commerce raiders love hiding in the clouds</p><p>- Gas giant dwelling life forms, of which there are a few, naturally very alien, tend to get upset if people skim their planets. The shockwaves from a passing starship can damage or kill thousands if not millions of creatures</p><p></p><p>DrZ hasn't been around for a couple of months. Hope that we haven't lost him. </p><p>Me too. Hope he is okay [/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wilphe, post: 4156420, member: 8221"] [sblock=ooc] ooc Wilphe, are we taking water or atmosphere for refuelling? I was assuming water. But ships scoop gas from gas giants, so would we be doing the same thing here? Could we? Any advantages either way? Yeah we are talking water from the planet itself, Pharmacorp want you to use the gasgiant. pros and cons of either: - Water: + It is normally availible on inhabitated planets, terrestrial ones anyway + It is really hard to die getting water, as even if there isn't a hose all you have to do is stop over any body of water, sink into it and open the fuelling cocks. Bad weather can make this a bit tricky but usually nothing more than that + You can use ice in extremis but that requires a lot of shovelling and then you have to melt it. + It doesn't require a seperate journey away from the main world - Most inhabitated planets don't like seeing their hydrosphere dissappear and will flat out forbid such refuelling or charge for it. Especially is water is short - Water needs to be cracked into hydrogen and oxygen to be useable as jump fuel. This isn't normally a problem as most ships have power to spare, but it does take time. Normally however that time is spent on planet or travelling to the jump point Gas Giant skimming + You will getting Hydrogen, not water, so it just needs to be purified, not cracked + No one really cares is their gas giant is a bit smaller - Skimming a gas giant is never routine, these things have weather systems the size of planets, crushing gravity and massive magnetic fields. Not a place to make a mistake. - It's a great place to get ambushed. Pirates, SBDs and commerce raiders love hiding in the clouds - Gas giant dwelling life forms, of which there are a few, naturally very alien, tend to get upset if people skim their planets. The shockwaves from a passing starship can damage or kill thousands if not millions of creatures DrZ hasn't been around for a couple of months. Hope that we haven't lost him. Me too. Hope he is okay [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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